BOOKS THIS MONTH

Radical Football

By Steve Fleming (Pitch Publishing, £12.99) Jurgen Griesbeck is, through Common Goal, leading transformational change across the football industry. Set up in partnership with World Cup winner Juan Mata, Common Goal aims to reconstruct football’s role in society and help put purpose, people and the planet at the heart of the game. This remarkable book shows how the power of football can – and must – be unleashed for social change.

Rise Together

By Adam Sloman (Pitch Publishing, £16.99)

This book examines the rebirth of Coventry City FC from 2017 to 2020. Having sunk to the depths of English football’s lowest professional division, the Sky Blues were a million miles from the FA Cup-winning heyday of1987 and the glitz and glamour of Premier League football. After a decade of decline, the arrival of Mark Robins for a second spell in charge would end all that. The story of Rise Together: Coventry City Under Mark Robins is one that every football fan will appreciate.